A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Wollstonecraft, Mary; Brody, Miriam

• ISBN13: 9780140431995
• ISBN10: 0140431993
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

The First Edition of this Norton Critical Edition was both an acclaimed classroom text and ahead of its time. This Second Edition offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976, providing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document written in English.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Further Reading	p. 71
A Note on the Text	p. 75
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author's Introduction	p. 79
Dedication	p. 85
The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered	p. 91
The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed	p. 100
The Same Subject Continued	p. 123
Observations on the State of Degradation to which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes	p. 141
Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt	p. 173
The Effect which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character	p. 219
Modesty - Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue	p. 227
Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation	p. 240
Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society	p. 252
Parental Affection	p. 264
Duty to Parents	p. 267
On National Education	p. 273
Some Instances of the Folly which the Ignorance of Women Generates, with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement that a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce	p. 300
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